Author: Walt Zlotow

President Biden is calling on the Taliban Afghan government to release Navy vet and civil engineer Mark Frerichs after 2 years of captivity in Afghanistan. Once America was ousted from Afghanistan last August 30, the victorious Taliban should have released Frerichs forthwith. Their failure to do so is a cruel act causing much needless pain to Frerichs, his family, friends, neighbors; indeed all Americans.

But while Biden is demanding Frerichs release, he’s strangling the Afghan economy with cruel, inhuman sanctions that degreed life for Afghanistan’s 40 million people. His cruelest sanction is withholding of $9.4 billion of Afghan assets in the Federal Reserve. Upwards of 23 million Afghans face starvation this year. Food insufficiency affects 98% of Afghans. Many Afghans die every day from America’s sore loser punishment for the Taliban defeating the world’s most powerful country.

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Maybe Russia will invade Ukraine, maybe they won’t. But America’s apparent all or nothing negotiations where America wins, Russia loses, actually makes invasion more likely.

Russia has valid national security concerns going back 30 years when the U.S. promised Russia, NATO would not expand one inch into former Soviet territory once Russia pulled its troops from East Germany, allowing German reunification. Surprise, surprise. NATO went on a recruitment binge, bringing 13 former soviet republics into NATO and encouraging 2 more, Georgia and Ukraine as well.

The latter two represented a threat too far for Russia to accept. In 2008, egged on by President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, Georgia initiated military action to regain 2 Russian leaning breakaway provinces. Russia responded with overwhelming force that crushed the Georgian incursion. Realizing Georgia acted irresponsibly in goading Russia to counterattack, and that the war was of no material consequence to the West, the West did nothing.

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They can’t get Build Back Better for America passed but House and Senate Dems are greenlighting Kill Back Better of a cool half a billion in weaponry for Ukraine to stop an imagined Russian invasion. OK, maybe Russia will invade, but certainly won’t if America will simply negotiate Russia’s valid security concerns of endless encroachment by NATO up to the Russian border, including the placement of offensive missiles.

The Dems security proposal tops the war obsessed GOP’s Ukraine giveaway by $50,000,000. Even Illinois’ normally decent Senator Dick Durbin co-sponsors this utter waste of our precious treasure. U.S. military aid to Ukraine since we inspired and supported the 2014 coup that ousted the democratically elected Russian leaning Ukraine president tops $5,000,000,000.

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According to the U.S. government and mainstream media, Russian President Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine on the road to re-establishing former Soviet glory. This neatly fits US black hat / white hat caricature of the aggressive Russian Bear vs. peace loving American Liberty.

Virtually no mention is made of legitimate Russian security concerns; much less discussed. These concerns go back 30 years to the breakup of the Soviet Union. In return for Russia withdrawing troops from East Germany and agreeing to German reunification, the US promised Russian Soviet Premier Gorbachev there would be no NATO expansion into the former Soviet bloc. With the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, NATO should have followed into oblivion. Instead, seizing upon new Russian weakness, NATO expanded to 30 members with inclusion of 13 former Soviet Republics.

Not satisfied with that expansion, the West flirted with NATO membership for 2 additional former Soviet republics, Georgia and Ukraine, to further isolate a weakened Russia from the West. For Georgia in 2008, that spelled disaster. Georgia banked on US, NATO support for their incursion into Russian leaning breakaway Georgian provinces. That triggered a Russian military reaction that thoroughly defeated and humiliated Georgian adventurism. The West backed off upon realizing Georgia was the foolish aggressor.

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American government and media endlessly demonize Russian president Putin over fears he’ll invade Ukraine.

Not one word appears on how America broke its promise 30 years ago not to expand NATO up to Russia’s doorstep; even placing offensive weaponry nearby. Not one word on how America inspired and supported the 2014 coup in Ukraine to depose the Russian leaning president to turn Ukraine away from Russia and its welcomed economic overtures to Ukraine.

We’re told Putin is simply an aggressive brute trying to re-establish the Soviet Union.

But nearly 60 years ago, revered U.S. president John Kennedy, brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon to do precisely what Putin is doing today: demanding a strong nuclear adversary remove its offensive weaponry and influence from his neighborhood.

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After 20 years, a couple of trillion bucks, several hundred thousand dead, including 7,000 U.S. and allied soldiers and contractors, the US fled Afghanistan in a Taliban rout. Our soldiers didn’t fail, just our puppet Afghan government and puppet Afghan military.

Neither served one credible day in governance or military superiority. Both were forced upon the hapless Afghan population in an immoral and senseless war to avenge the 911 attacks. Yet the country most responsible for 911, Saudi Arabia, is hailed as our dependable Middle East ally which gooses our economy with tens of billions in war weapon purchases.

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